Spotify’s bot lead lays out his vision of a ‘music concierge’

“I call it a music concierge, like your music best friend,” said Brendan O’Driscoll at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat conference, “an ever-present music concierge in some sort of group environment that could be a group chat in Slack or it could be living in the background…”

We talk with an executive of a major brand, about how APIs and AI can take your app anwhere, or bring other apps into yours — and why this is changing the way apps are thought about. In fact, the app is disappearing, and a user-controlled experience of assisted intelligence is appearing.